Nancy Haigwood, an HIV researcher at Oregon Health & Science University, has been named to a select advisory group for the federal agency tasked with funding medical research, the National Institutes of Health.

Haigwood, an adjunct professor of molecular microbiology and immunology who serves as director of OHSU’s Oregon National Primate Research Center, is one of 10 new appointees to the NIH Council of Councils. The 27-member council was set up by federal law to advise the NIH Director on future research emphasis by, among other things, “making recommendations on research that represents important areas of emerging scientific opportunities, rising public health challenges, or knowledge gaps that deserve special emphasis or would otherwise benefit from strategic planning and coordination,” according to the NIH.